[quote]pushharder wrote:
I understand the point you’re trying to make and in all fairness it is an extension of the British guy’s point.
The point I was trying to drive home is that the gun is the great equalizer for a woman who might encounter a predator in her lifetime. She should not necessarily run out and get one because of paranoia; neither should she scoffingly decide she never has anything to worry about.
It is true that the statistical likelihood of an assault lean toward someone she knows well, most likely an ex boyfriend or husband. All the more reason for her to do what is practical and reasonable to defend herself and in many instances, her children.
None of my comments on this thread need be taken as political advocacy. They are of a practical nature. Throughout history women have suffered disproportionately greater physical harm in confrontations due to the biological differences in the sexes.
Until firearms were invented she was at the mercy of the other sex’s whims when it comes to violence; she really could do nothing about it. The gun changed all that.
It is a tool. One should have many tools in their toolbox; the more you have the more effective you can be at survival. Safe driving is a tool. Eating and exercising is a tool. Good awareness is a tool, etc.
One’s location and circumstances do play an important part in determining which tools a woman should have in her tool box. A single parent living in the southside of Chicago with a violent ex-husband should carefully consider many tools while a woman in a relatively safe environment and social order in New Brunswick may consider other tools in her priority list.
It’s all relative. But in no case should some fit, confident British guy living in Mexico unduly persuade the hypothetical Chicago woman that she really doesn’t have anything to worry about and she should keep her gun locked up at the gun club like they do in jolly ol’ England where home invasion and physical violence against women is sky-rocketing.
Nor should he scoff at the Montana woman, who lives in grizzly country and is home alone from time to time and where the police response time is at best 45 minutes, from grabbing her gun when things go bump in the night.
Women, don’t let some inherent fear of the gun, a tool, and/or some reliance on statistical improbability, cause you the inability to effectively deal with a predator some day. There is just too much “instant power” available to you to level the playing field with this tool.[/quote]
This is a good, compelling post.
I doubt I’ll ever own a gun for a number of reasons, but nonetheless, it was an interesting read.
